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% MeJ DAILYmutantSUN-DAYAmociattd Ptmi I NBA FMtun* MrrtMN. Y. Stock and Bond Ust Montana'* Oldest Publication! It Blankets Helena’* Trading Territory,VOL. 76-NO. 72HELENA, MONTANA, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1941PRICE FIVE CENTSBrest-Litovsk Falls to GermansBut Russians Claim 300 German Tanks Put Out of Fight Thus FarSpanish Cabinet Is to Meet to Decide Upon Course; May Join Nazis; Latest Nazi Drive Is Directed At City of LeningradBy The Associated PressRussia declared today that the broad German offensive front the Baltic to the Black sea was a failure but acknowledged that the Ger man legions had captured the Fortress city of Brest-Litovsk where (jermany once forced the Bolsheviks to yield a big chunk of land.t he Moscow communique said the Red army had captured 5,000 German officers and troops in two days and had destroyed 300 nazi tanks.1 he Red army high command also said 127 German planes had been shot down in the two-dav war, 76 Sunday and 51 Monday.The Russians also admitted that the Germans had occupied Kolno and Lomzha.Shaulai is about 100 miles inside the old Lithuanian frontier along East Prussia and about 75 miles from Kaunas, former capital of Lithuania.Action in that area indicates one branch of the German thrust was headed toward Leningrad, Russia’s second city and great naval base.A thrust to Leningrad would give the Germans the entire Baltic coast, along which lay the three Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia which Russia absorbed after the war began.SPANISH CONSIDERING THEIR CAUSE ^Madrid, Spain, .June 23.— (AP)—The,Spanish cabinet held an urgent cabinet meeting tonight without announcing decision on whether a voluntary Spanish expe* ditlonary force would aid Germany against the Russians.A communique said merely that German array on a Iront extend--—ing from the Baltic to the Black , seas destroyed 300 nazl tanks and | captured 5,000 German troops, the Red army high, command announced early today.The fall o£ Brest-Litovsk on the ,Bug river In former Poland near the German-Russlan frontier waa ‘ acknowledged but the main German offensive was branded, a failure by Moscow.A total of 127 German planeB was claimed shot down in the first two days of war. Seventy-six were shot down Sunday and 51 yesterday, the high command 1the session will be continued further, indicating the ministries have not reached a decision.U. S. Ambassador Alexander Weddell, meanwhile, requested urgent interview with Geoeralis-, slmo .Francisco Franco,An official spokesman made it clear that Spain, i£ she fought, would not be fighting to aid anyone but rather against the country fought for three years in the civil war.”RUMANIAN CLAIMSLondon, June 33. —(Jp)— Rumanian military circles at Ankara claimed today that their southernmost columns driving from Galati have penetrated 50 miles into Russian Bessarabia despite fierce Russian resistance and heavy losses on both sides.RUSSIAN REPORTMoscow', (Tuesday), June 24. —(/P) — Soviet troops colliding with the mechanized fury of theDuring the day the enemy strove to develop hiB offensives along the whole front from the Baltic sea to the Black sea, directing his main effort toward Shaulai, Kaunas, Grodno, Volkovlsk, Kobrin, Vladimlrvolsynk, Rava-russka and Brody, hut met with success,” the communiquesaid.(Continued on Page 2)Copper Subsidy Program Is ConsideredPremium of TwoCents c PoundMay Be OfferedNew York, June 23.—(JP)—The Wall Street Journal says govern.' ment defense officials are studying a copper price subsidy plan designed to encourage new production.Such a step might be forced by the growing needs of the defense program and industry, which official estimates Indicate will consume more copper than is now being produced in all United States and Latin American mines, the paper says. Forecasting a
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